Isaiah 22:2
The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.
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Isaiah 23:7Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?
Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it.
Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.
Jeremiah 52:6on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Lamentations 4:9The slain with the sword were better 1 Than they that were slain with hunger: 1 They have departed, 1 Pierced through from want of the fruits of the field. 1
Amos 6:3Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false Sabbaths;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:2-8
The Consternation of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 718.) 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of… Read the whole commentary →